Stormy season

yesterday Eryn called from school about 4:00 and said "Mom can you give me a ride?" There was a little quiver in her voice and I immediately exclaimed, "You're not out walking in this are you?!!" It had been blowing all day and it started snowing sideways, and when I opened my front door to say goodbye to Cheri (we were quilting yesterday) it looked like a TV ad for cold season with the wind and blizzard conditions. So I went to get her, and she and a few little friends made it to the car, walking at a 45 degree angle to the ground. They looked so tiny, and when there were all settled in the back and front seats of Cherry, Madison our little neighbor girl (Jeremy Robert's daughter) said, "We tried to walk but the wind kept blowing my little brother away. I had to hold on to his hand to save him." I thought of Piglet in Winnie the Pooh. Actually Grandma Marlene had been to the school twice to find them, but it was pretty hard with the whiteout and these little tiny snow-covered ants slowly moving away from the school, kind of how it is when I dump diazanon on a swarming anthill. I thought it was cool the way they banded together, all the little kids in the neighborhood together, trying to get home. One of the schools, Suncrest Elementary, kind of up on the hill where Reagan's brother lives, ending up keeping all the kids overnight. The buses couldn't make it up to the school. It took Brenda 3 1/2 hours to get home from work, Mimi about the same. In spite of it all, Wally came home from work kind of early (6;15 or so) and took me to dinner at Cafe Rio to celebrate our anniversary of engagement. There was no line, and we felt kind of strange in the place with not many others there. It was really quiet and we could hear each other talk. I had my favorite: salmon taco.
This morning we were supposed to take Mom & Dad Breinholt to the temple but Dad called at 6:30 to say it was too snowy. We weren't going to pick them up until around 8:30 but old habits die hard. The brickmason in him got up early and checked all the weather reports and sent out the calls whether or not we would be working or not.